Playable Communications
This presentation reflects on the findings of the interdisciplinary ‘TransForm’ project, which aimed to explore how reading and writing digital fictions (DFs) might support young women in developing frameworks for more positive thinking regarding body image.
This presentation summarizes the convergent evolution in different media, from e-lit to indie games to webcomics, and examines each for its successes and failures in terms of commercialization. It offers insight into the future of digital fiction based on these case studies, as well as the author’s own practice-based research into publishing and commercializing digital fiction as both a creator and a publisher
Me, lately I spent my PhD years going to many, many conferences. When you’re in a small department in an isolated part of the world, they’re kind of a necessity. You go to meet anyone – ...
Electronic Literature OrganizationPorto, Portugal20 July 2017 Abstract Literature arises from a “maker” culture: the basic skills required to consume and create literature are ubiquitous in modern literate cultures. From schools to book clubs to writers’ ...
MIX Digital ConferenceBath Spa University9-12 July 2017 Published as chapter in conference-related collection: Bom, Isabelle van der, R. Lyle Skains, Alice Bell, and Astrid Ensslin. 2021. “Reading Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction: An Empirical Approach.” In ...
First of all, hello again, old blog. I haven’t visited you, much less nourished you, in quite some time! What’s that meme that goes around about the best friends being those that can go months ...
Style & Response ConferenceSheffield Hallam University11 November 2016 Abstract This paper presents findings from an empirical study of writers creating digital fiction, and specifically reports on data regarding participant responses to reading digital fiction. This ...
Shankland Lecture SeriesBangor University8 November 2016 Abstract A lecture given at the Bangor University Library as part of their public Shankland Lecture Series, focusing on e-books, e-publishing, and the possibilities for digital fiction commercialization through ...
Lyle Skains Images of you: with a stranger. Images of you: dead and broken. Images of you: in the future. Are they a trick? Are they prophecy? What will you do? A short story in ...
Lyle Skains Digital Novel, 2014 A fantasy tale told through Flash, interactive fiction, blog, and hyperfiction.
